Arts/Culture/Photos

Mary Agnes Rodriguez is a San Antonio, Texas artist known for her murals, paintings, bus stop designs, and ceramic works. She is an artist and also a community activist committed to works that beautify the Westside as well as projects that give needed visibility to...

One of the newest research and scholarship gems of the University of Texas at Austin is the UT Voces Oral History Center directed by Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez. Founded in 1999, the Center has perhaps the largest holdings in a digital format of more than 1600 taped...

Raul Rene Gonzalez is a self-described multidisciplinary artist who creates art by using a multitude of mediums and methods. While he favors painting, he is highly productive in drawings, sculptures, clothing, murals, and installations. His artistic versatility...

My story about poverty and inequities in San Antonio’s Westside last week generated some interesting commentaries from my Lanier High School friends. I grew up in the Westside 78207 neighborhood that I wrote about. The stories included in this article are a...

San Antonio’s Westside, the poorest district in the city and one of the poorest urban communities in the United States, received some exciting news last month. The Aspen Institute and the newly created local entity ESTAR West announced a partnership designed to lift...

Tony Romo serving as this year’s Super Bowl CBS broadcaster will provide a play-by-play analysis of the big game, a television first for a Latino. When the Los Angeles Rams meet the Cincinnati Bengals on their home field in Southern California, millions of Latino...

Chicano Art is coming of age. The Smithsonian American Art Museum “Printing the Revolution!” exhibit is coming to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas in March 2022. Later in the Spring, the Romo collection “Estampas de La Raza” will open in Sacramento,...

If there is one term of endearment that will always bring a rush of warm memories of my mom, it is what she called my brother Rick and me all our lives: sweetheart. This will be our third Valentine’s Day without her, but certainly not without her spirit. As a little...

Carlos Merida’s mural at HemiFair Park may well be San Antonio’s first public Mexican modern art piece [Fig. 1*]. In Mexican Modern Art, critic Fausto Ramirez linked Merida’s fascination with the indigenous fabrics of his native Guatemala to his modern creative...

Mexico and the U.S. borderlands have produced many artists; however, the number of photographers who have covered both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border is relatively small. Historically, the field is also relatively new. The rise of borderland photography dates back to...